Fred Miller
East Branch Friends of the Arts (EBFA) is delighted to present, “Jule Styne,” a “lecture in song” by talented singer/pianist/actor Fred Miller on Friday, July 12, at 8 p.m. at the Keene Valley Congregational Church.
In a series of more than 60 Lectures-In-Song, Mr. Miller presents history, biography and psychology while sitting at the piano singing the superlative songs of his heroes from the Golden Era of popular music. A perennial favorite, Miller has already taken his EBFA audiences down memory lane eight times (featuring Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer, Rodgers & Hart, Alan Jay Lerner, Jerome Kern, the Gershwins and Frank Loesser).
This summer he will provide a musical and anecdotal overview of the life and work of Jule Styne, a product of Jazz Age Chicago who became a Hollywood songwriter when film musicals were in full flower and went on to write for Frank Sinatra and some of Broadway’s greatest female stars, including Carol Channing, Judy Holliday, Ethel Merman and Barbra Streisand.
Suggested donation is $10 per person; students free. For more information, please call 576-4686 or e-mail eastbranchfriendsofthearts@gmail.com
